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Add Chromecast built-in Integration

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December 26, 2021
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I live in Italy and here Android users are much more that the Android users that are in the USA…

Personally all my family have an Android device, like Google Pixels, and all the house have integration with Google Assistant and Google Home. We are a Google Family.

We bought a Sonos Move for have a portable speaker with a gorgeous sound, and I can confirm that it have, but we hear the lack of the Google Chromecast built-in integration.

In fact the Chromecast built-in feature is a great opportunity for Sonos, we think, because in this way Sonos Speakers can appear in Media controls of Google Home and so can be controlled by all the people that live in the house. Also Chromecast built-in have plenty of integration with some services that made things really easy.

So, we decide that for now Sonos for us it can be only the Sonos Move or the Sonos Roam that have also the Bluetooth, because we need it for limiting the lack of the Chromecast built-in functionality. But we appreciate that in the future these awesome speakers, that are probably the best in their category, will have the Chromecast built-in feature, so we can buy product that also came without Bluetooth.

Best regards,

Giovanni Galboni

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chicks

Stumbled upon this Chrome browser extension which makes it very easy to cast from any website (YooToob, for example) to your Sonos endpoints.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cast-to-sonos/defbpbmenfaikcnhmamnghdlcmahjaib

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Atwoz

Lyricist I

Stumbled upon this Chrome browser extension which makes it very easy to cast from any website (YooToob, for example) to your Sonos endpoints.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cast-to-sonos/defbpbmenfaikcnhmamnghdlcmahjaib

Nice find! AirMusic seems decent as an Android app too, but ultimately just wish it all was native.

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r4321

Contributor I

Chromecast could be useful for allowing some PC sound on sonos. Currently I can watch a video (eg youtube or netflix) on my iPhone and have the sound airplay to a sonos speaker, but there doesnt appear to be a way to do it on a windows PC which is a bit unfortunate.

chicks

Chromecast could be useful for allowing some PC sound on sonos. Currently I can watch a video (eg youtube or netflix) on my iPhone and have the sound airplay to a sonos speaker, but there doesnt appear to be a way to do it on a windows PC which is a bit unfortunate.

I’ve just posted a way to do it from a PC three posts above this one.

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ERC

Lyricist I

The WiiM Pro is now selling on Amazon US, $149. It’s direct competition for the Sonos Port, includes Chromecast, AirPlay 2, Tidal Connect, Spotify Connect, Alexa, Siri and Google voice control, all the major streaming providers, and a nicer app than that of Sonos, IMO. Multiroom via AirPlay 2, Alexacast, Google and their own proprietary multiroom protocol.

They have plans to integrate the Squeeze protocol and Roon, as well. All of these features make it the first truly viable Sonos competitor, IMO, not to mention that their tech is being used by MANY other manufacturers.

Is there anyway to link the WiiM Pro to your existing Sonos setup? I want a way to chromecast audio to nest speakers and sonos speakers simultaneously.

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YoutubeSucks

Contributor II

I find the claim that 'everything is easier if you have an iPad/iPhonr’ rather bizarre. The Sonos apps for iOS and Android are virtually identical in design and functionality. No Trueplay on Android, no On This Mobile Device on iOS.

Playing from native apps like Spotify is OS-independent.

For those of us who don't need Chromecast and wouldn't use Airplay there is virtually nothing that is easier on an iPhone than on am Android phone.

When I said everything was easier, I meant that using the speaker-related apps is easier, (you don't have to sign up for any service or use the sonos app), not that all Sonos features are easier with iOS(they’re almost the same, not to mention TRUEPLAY).
I generally prefer the original apps: Spotify, Deezer, Qobuz, Tidal; than going into sonos and playing the music from the corresponding service. And this is easier with airplay2 (it would be with Chromecast too).

I use Amazon, Pandora, Sirius XM, and Sonos Radio. I don’t do it often, but I have casted from the Amazon or Pandora apps to Sonos speaker. Even with airplay, I would probably use this method, as I don’t want to rely on the audio streaming through my phone to the speakers, I want the audio going directly to them. For the most part, I use voice control, especially now that Sonos Radio is covered by Sonos voice.

The best one for me is Chromecast. It has the ease of use of airplay and the speaker is the one that does all the work, the mobile acts as the controller. The sonos application solves the problem of not having it with various music/podcasts/radio platforms, but not with all of them, for example with google podcast or a very famous podcast app in Spanish called ivoox. My sonos speaker doesn't work with those two apps. After years I have given up hope. I admit I was a fan of sonos, but having a relatively expensive speaker that can't play my favourite podcasts is a pain.

The lousey responses from the Sonos community are basically this:

“oh well you can't please everyone. “

Imagine if Sonos took away Alexa or iPhone casting support.

What if in order to play anything, you needed to use the app?

That's the pool that I and many others are in.

I've grown to hate the Sonos products that once loved and I'll never buy another and it's purely because THEY DONT CARE ABOUT THE USERS.

Otherwise we would get actual answer from the developers instead the community has this condescending attitude.

“you can't please everyone”

Its not about pleasing people, in this case it's an actual issue. It's functionally broken for us who use Chrome cast.

The app has many issues, those issues would be resolved if they brought back Chromecast.

It once had chromecast if you didn't realise. And it was great!

From what I gather, Sonos and Chrome cast had a legal despute, so now Sonos has actively disabled that feature.

If they brought it back, there would no question that I again become a fan. But it doesn't look like they will.

Don't recommend Sonos to anyone. There are better products.

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